Post by Kid Terrific on Jan 26, 2013 11:43:10 GMT -5
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NAME: James Matthew Monroe (Goes by James Sloane now.)
CODENAME: Kid Terrific
AGE: 16
GENDER: Male
ALLIANCE: Young Justice
HEIGHT: 5'10
WEIGHT: 160 lbs
FAMILY: Terry Sloane (Grandfather/Deceased)
Michael Monroe (Father/Deceased)
Paula Monroe (Mother/Deceased)
OTHER CHARACTERS: N/A
APPEARENCE: James stands at 5'10, and he has a healthy 160 lb frame. His brown hair tends to be quite messy, as if he doesn't comb it. It is naturally messy, so he just keeps it that way. He has dark brown eyes that are described as being the same shade as a hazel nut. His physique is a muscular one, but it is hidden by his clothes. This causes people to think he is scrawnier and weaker than he actually is. But this is a very deceptive look.
The attire that James leans towards is casual and formal. He tends to wear colorful t-shirts, jeans and trainers. He also wears black fingerless gloves. On the day's he wears a more formal clothing, James will be wearing a black or blue long sleeved shirt, with a blazer. He will also wear jeans and loafers on these days. No matter which attire he is wearing, he will wear his fingerless gloves.
James's costume consists of several components. He wears a grey and red tunic which has built in body armour. He wears blue combat trousers, black fingerless gloves and black combat boots. A domino mask is what he uses to cover his eyes. He tends to keep his hood pulled up as well. His uniform is also outfitted with several pieces of technology; such as a holographic computer on his right sleeve, and circuits that allow his gloves to become electrified. His suit also contains neuromuscular amplification technology, which boosts his strength by a factor of 15, and even contains a hidden jetpack and jets built into the boots, allowing flight for periods of an hour or half an hour. His costume also contains stealth tech, which allows it to go entirely black for stealth missions.
PERSONALITY: James is a wildcard to be short. He's the guy who looks at the reality in front of him, and refuses to accept it. This has led to him being calm and enthusiastic, even at inappropriate times. Even in a life or death situation, he would crack a joke or make a remark. However, James can be serious if it is absolutely needed. At times, James babbles on about technology, going on about the components of a computer or a piece of tech that has caught his eye.
Despite this nature, James is capable of making strategies and tactics that involve the use of technology. In keeping with his wildcard nature, James is also a bit of a jester, as he will make jokes and pull pranks at time. But, despite this nature, he is also intelligent and a bit nerdy at times. His stoic, calm and enthusiastic demeanour hides someone who is slightly numbed emotionally, depressed and angry. Having seen his parents die, James became a wildcard to prevent anyone else he loves getting hurt.
POWERS: Like his grandfather before him, James has a natural aptitude for natural aptitudes. He is a skilled inventor and mechanic, able to create new forms of technology or modify old forms with ease. In addition to this, James is a very skilled hacker. He has been able to hack into security systems with ease, without tripping the security alarms. As well as this, he is quite competent at operating computers, fixing them and modifying them to work beyond capacity.
Apart from these computer skills, James is a master of hand-to-hand combat and a master martial artist to boot. Despite his young age, he holds black belts in Jiu Jitsu, Judo, Boxing, Kung Fu and Karate, which allows him to hold his own against most opponents. He has also learned Parkour A.K.A free running, which helps him. He is able to press double his own body weight, giving him athletic strength. But when wearing his suit, his strength is multiplied by fifteen. This allows him to lift 4000 lbs, meaning he can lift 2 tons. As well as this, he has some acrobatic skills, able to perform flips and tumbles with ease. James also has a genius level intellect, which is specifically skilled for computer technology, but he still has a good general knowledge of several other subjects, such as chemistry, biology and other subjects. He is also capable of speaking German, French, Spanish and Italian.
HISTORY: James Monroe was born to loving parents with good professions. His father was a martial arts trainer, who also taught English at a high school. His mother was a nurse, and both of his parents were always there for him. His mother was the daughter of Terrence Sloane, the first Mister Terrific, meaning that James was related to a former hero and member of the Justice Society of America. For at least the first five years of his life, James was a normal little boy. He didn't show any signs of having a superhuman power or metagene.
All this changed when James was eight years old. He had been reading a book about engineering and inventing, and later on, he had made his wind-up toy car into a speeding machine. His mother had a feeling that this would show someday: She knew her son might have inherited her father’s natural aptitude. To focus this, both James’s parents began to teach him things they knew. This led to his father teaching him martial arts, and his mother teaching him some of the subjects she had been taught by her father. He was picking these up fast, but not as fast as his grandfather ever had.
When he was thirteen years old, James began to feel inspiration from heroes, particularly Batman and Robin, since he was from Gotham. To this end, he constructed a small costume for himself, consisting of a hoodie and several other pieces, and he began to venture out at night, learning Parkour to further his goals, and also working harder at his martial arts training, achieving black-belts in six martial arts. Knowing that he would need to be a bit above average to survive as a hero, he began to scavenge for scrap parts, and used these to create neuromuscular amplifiers. Back then, however, his strength was only enhanced by a factor of five, meaning he only ever lifted sixteen hundred lbs back then. After sneaking out as The Hood several times, James began to work on a few more pieces of technology, but he never really finished them because his parents had almost discovered them at times. For two more years, James would continue to be The Hood.
On his fifteenth birthday, James's life was changed forever. A home invasion happened, and his parents were killed in the attack. His father, however, held his own, and told James to run. Instead, the boy attacked the invaders. There were five of them, and James's father only killed one before he himself was killed. This caused the boy to reach such anger that he attacked them, and using his knowledge of martial arts and the kitchen, he beat them badly. And he was scared that the police would investigate his family history to find out how he had taken them on.
After this, James packed up all of his things, including his costumes, and ran. He ran as far as he could for almost a year, but then he met the Team. Coming clean to them about his grandfather being a hero, and he himself being The Hood, he begged them to help him find a place to live. This led to him being introduced to the Cave, where he became a member of the team. Using their spare tech and stealth tech, he perfected several additions to his costumes, including jet-boots and a jetpack, and increasing the neuromuscular amplification tech of his suit to a multiplier of fifteen, as well as adding stealth tech to his suit and even a holo computer similar to Robins.
As well as this, he upgraded his costume from a hoodie to a tunic, and taking on a codename that is reminiscent of his grandfathers: Kid Terrific, the teenaged version of Mr Terrific. He resides in the Cave as well, having no wear else to go. He also attends Happy Harbour High, downplaying his intellect so he doesn’t skip ahead. He has taken on his grandfathers last name, to hide his identity from the police, and to honor his grandfather.
ROLE-PLAYING SAMPLE: His fifteenth birthday. A beautiful day! The sun shining and the birds were chirping. But, on some days, disaster strikes. The invaders, they struck. And they killed his parents. James had never felt such terror and anger in his whole life! Screaming at them, he grabbed the first one by the throat and hurled him at the second one. He was stronger than most people, even without his amplifiers and he was a black belt in six different martial artists. Cracking his neck, he glared at the third thug, who was stupid enough to rush him.
Grabbing his fist, James used the guy’s momentum and kinetic e force to take him down, by ramming him into the sink, and then punching him between the eyes. Two out of the three were out cold, while the one that was still conscious was getting back to his feet. Not even giving him the chance to fully get back, he kicked him in the face and punched him in the wind pipe. The terror was now overtaking the anger, and he needed to get away from here: run while he could, before the police made an investigation into this.